May latest essay at Law and Liberty, reflecting on Josef Pieper's book, Leisure: The Basis of Culture: The idea of the liberal arts college has been under assault for some time now, not just from without the walls of the Academy. Liberal arts colleges made a Faustian bargain: in exchange for ever increasing tuition payments, we provide students with hypothetically valuable job training in a posh resort. The result is that there are two forces competing for control of the colleges right … [Read more...] about The Decline of Leisure and the Academy
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
